Articles – Page 16 – First World War Centenary News Archive

December 26, 2013 CN Editorial Team

‘What if the Germans had won the First World War?’

An article in The Guardian considers the counterfactual history of a victorious Germany in the First World War.

December 29, 2013 CN Editorial Team

‘Skirmishes flare over World War I Centennial plans’

The Los Angeles Times reports on "disputes erupting in Europe over how best to remember a conflict that claimed the lives of millions".

January 1, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Michael Morpurgo writes about the Centenary: “We should honour those who died… but we should never glorify”

Writing in The Guardian, the author of War Horse writes about his own family connections to the First World War and why he believes there should be no "glorification" of the conflict during the Centenary.

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War Centenary “likely to reawaken the ghosts of nationalism and highlight stark differences in how Europeans remember the conflict”

EurActiv publishes an article which argues the First World War Centenary is likely to "stir bad memories for fractured [Europe]".

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centennial Countdown to the Great War: December 1913

A monthly blog documents events taking place 100 years ago.

January 2, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australia’s fallen remembered in an English country churchyard

Inspired by a call to remember the Commonwealth dead of the First World War buried in the UK, Centenary News' Peter Alhadeff visited Wiltshire.

January 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘Archduke Franz Ferdinand descendant: don’t blame us for First World War’

Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, the grandson of the last emperor of Austria-Hungary, Karl I, has said there is no need for his family to show remorse for the First World War.

January 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Spanish newspaper ‘El País’ speaks to five centenarians about their memories of the First World War

The Spanish newspaper El País has interviewed five people who were alive during the First World War about their memories of the conflict.

January 20, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Germany’s youth “wants to learn more about the First World War”

Deutsche Welle reports that an increasing number of people under the age of 30 in Germany – as much as 77% – would like to know more about the First World War, but the subject is "neglected" in schools.

January 27, 2014 CN Editorial Team

‘War and Colonies 1914-1918’ conference & exhibition organiser interview

The organiser of an international conference about colonies and the First World War, Olivier Litvine, speaks to Centenary News about the project.